Taco Bell's enchirito is not wrapped in a cheese quesadilla (unless the "secret" version is radically different from the version that was on the menu sporadically for years and that's shown in the photo). An enchirito is beans, ground beef, and onions, wrapped in a tortilla (which is rolled around it, not folded burrito-style), then covered in red sauce and shredded cheese. It used to come with three olive slices on top, but Taco Bell eliminated olives from its ingredients in the late 1990s.

The original version -- discontinued in the 1990s -- also used a soft corn tortilla. Now it's made with a flour tortilla,

Here in Phoenix, Wendy's tested breakfast circa 2009 (with the maple-chip biscuit filled with egg, sausage, and cheese -- it was weirdly compelling in a gross way) and then again with the 2012-ish breakfast roll-out (more normal menu). The one nearest me is a franchisee that chose to keep breakfast after the company gave up on it, but many large franchisee groups resisted, just as they've resisted the remodeling initiatives.

Also, most streaming services can tell if a song is on perpetual loop from a single device and will throw those listens out as spam. Youtube's done this for several years, as ardent fanbases have been continuous-streaming songs for as long as it's been possible to stream.

The nearest Walmart Neighborhood Market to me is -- to my surprise -- really nice. It's bright and clean, the fresh food selection is good, and it carries more exotic ingredients than many competitors. Unfortunately, the chain isn't expanding especially fast here, since many of the most desirable locations are in the grip of horrible Fresh 'n' Easy.

I'm still baffled as to why this would be a threat to delivery-focused chains, since it doesn't deliver.

When I want pizza for lunch at the office, I order online from Pizza Hut or Domino's because they're cheap and they deliver. The chi-chi pizza place a block away does not get my business because that's a more expensive lunch that I have to go out for. If I were to want pizza for a large crowd, I would order from somewhere that delivers, not take the group to a build-your-own-pizza joint (where ordering would end up taking forever).

If I'm out and about and want an nicer pizza dinner, then I sometimes go to a locally owned chi-chi pizzeria and sometimes to Fired Pie (our locally owned Blaze equivalent). But this serves a totally different purpose in my pizza-eating life than delivery pizza does.

If Kate David Hudson believes the 1980s was the heyday of business casual then, sadly, she has no idea what she's talking about. The 1980s and early 1990s was the era of the "power suit." Business casual took over in the late 1990s or early 2000s. GAP ran into trouble at some point in that era, and "fast fashion" was already on the rise -- both before Instagram existed.

I've been reading breathless "fast fashion is challenging traditional retailers" articles for at least 10 years now, and I suspect it's closer to 15 or 20 years, so it's not reassuring that Goldman Sachs only just noticed.

Sam, the chart is interesting... and now that you've discovered how non-GAAP reporting works, maybe it's time for BI to start reporting the GAAP results of some of its heavily covered companies, rather than relying on restating press releases from the companies' management. A number of favorites have positive EPS under their management's favorite non-GAAP moves but negative EPS under GAAP.

The "going to multiple stores" thing is because in the U.S., families tend to do a big shopping trip every now and again (I go every two weeks, but some go every week or only once a month) and then do "fill in" shopping in between. The big shop will be at a store with a big selection (traditional grocery store, Costco, Walmart, Target, depending on preferences) and then fill-in is for convenience or for specialty items, so it's more likely to be at a drugstore, a dollar store, or Trader Joe's.

What we're seeing in the U.S. is a mix of smaller-format and larger-format stores. All the Walmarts and Targets added grocery sections a while back, but Walmart is experimenting with smaller grocery stores. At the same time, our local Kroger variant just keeps expanding the existing stores, and so does Safeway. The new Whole Foods near me is enormous. It'd be an over-simplification to say that "smaller" is the only trend.

Apple's decision to not pay royalties during the free-trial period is Apple throwing its weight around. Spotify manages to pay royalties for its free streaming (remember: it's freemium model, so most listeners don't pay for a subscription but listen to ads). Apple could easily afford to pay but chooses to show its contempt for content-providers.

So Apple thinks that, just because I own an iPhone, I'm going to switch from free ad-supported streaming with a service that pays royalties properly to paid streaming with a company that treats artists like crap (and can't manage to debug the Windows version of iTunes, so I can't use it on my laptop). Apple deserves for this to fail the same way Ping flopped.

McDonald's is continuing to run the same strategy that Yum Brands does -- exciting, innovative, and often "nicer" restaurants outside the U.S. -- which it's been doing for years.

McDonald's blather about healthier foods and customization and Millennials is going to go about as well as Pizza Hut's similar blather. They already face massive competition from "better burger" joints, and those customers aren't going to switch to McDonald's, any more than customers for snazzier pizzas (also readily available) switched to Pizza Hut.

The McLobster was traditionally sold only in New England, where lobster wasn't a pricey luxury item and where everybody wanted a lobster roll in summer. I never tried one, but it's not at all the same context as here in landlocked Arizona, where a lobster roll costs $18 from a food truck.

Pizza Hut, on the other hand, clearly saves all its creativity for the non-U.S. markets.

You may want to correct the statement that this feature hasn't been rolled out on iOS yet, as it has. When I updated Google Maps on my iPhone a week or two ago, I started seeing "closed" if I looked for a route to a business that wasn't open right then, and I've also seen some sort of "about to close" message.